CHRIST HATH REDEEMED US.

 

JULY 6.
 
Christ hath redeemed us from the curse of the law.
Galatians 3:13

 
THE soul that sinneth it shall die.
 
This is the sentence of God’s law.
 
To die is to be separated from God,
  who is the source of life, holiness, and joy,
  and to be punished with pain, remorse,
  and God’s frown for ever.
 
Man is so constituted that he cannot be happy without God;
  he must know, possess an interest in, and
  enjoy fellowship with God; or
   be restless, and dissatisfied, and unhappy.
 
The law dooms him to this,
  but Jesus came to deliver us from
   the curse of the law,
  by doing what we failed to perform, and
   by suffering what we deserved.
 
He was forsaken of God.
He languished in dreadful pain.
He was overwhelmed with grief and sorrow.
He was in an agony.
He felt the withering curse,
  he drank the bitter cup,
  he exalted the dreadful sentence,
  he satisfied divine justice, and
now by faith in him we are delivered.
 
He is accepted as our substitute,
  his righteousness is placed to our account, and
  the blessing of Abraham comes up on us.
 
We are blessed with and blessed as Abraham was.
 
We were cursed,==
 

But Jesus hath our sentence borne,

He did in our afflictions mourn,

A man of sorrows made,

A servant and a curse for me;

He bears the utmost penalty,

He suffers in my stead.

 
James Smith 1849